Roosevelt Island Tram Out Of Service From Monday August 20 - Friday August 25 and Monday August 27 - Friday August 31 During Daytime Off Peak Hours For Station Renovations

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Received the following advisory from the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC):

Please be advised:

The Tram will be Out of Service for Station Renovations

During Off-Peak Hours (10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Daily)

Monday, August 20th- Friday, August, 24th

& Monday, August 27th- Friday, August 31st

The MTA’s F-Train and the Q-102 bus will be in operation during this time. Please be sure to make alternate arrangements.

For more information about MTA service please visit www.mta.info or call 511.

During the July 24 RIOC Operations Committee meeting (full audio webcast of meeting here), Vice President of Operations Fernando Martinez updated the Directors on the Tram Station Rehab and Modernization project. No mention was made during this meeting of the upcoming daytime off peak Tram outage.

Mr. Martinez did discuss his climb to the top of the Tram Towers and the Directors asked Mr. Martinez about a recent weekend Tram overcrowding due to only one Tram cabin operating when there was no F train subway service to Manhattan from Roosevelt Island. Mr. Martinez was not aware of the daylong outage of one Tram Cabin caused by a problem with a Tower Gear.

RIOC Director David Kraut suggested that the overcrowding at the Tram when F Train Subway service for Roosevelt Island is disrupted may not be such a big deal because the people left waiting as the Tram leaves can get on the next Tram.

Here's the July 24 Operations Committee meeting discussion on the Tram.



More on the Tram Station renovations from previous post.

UPDATE 8/17 - RIOC describes renovations being done to Tram Station.